Figure 3.
Conformational determinants of proton affinity in NG and NA dipeptides. a) the gas-phase proton-affinity calculated with the semi-empirical PM6 Hamiltonian as a function of ϕ & ψ angles (upper panels) and the kernel density estimation plots of ϕ & ψ angles for the respective NG and NA motifs observed in the PDB database of crystallized antibodies (lower panels). b) Representative conformations and the possible ways in which the values of ϕ & ψ affects proton affinity: beta sheet (b1, basic), right-handed helix (b2, basic), and left-handed helix (b3, acidic).